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    Despondent: 1. State of mind of the respondent of long questionnaires and application forms.
    2. The depressed respondent in a divorce suit.
    Epiphany
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    Epiphany: A glorious breakthrough such as the moment one realizes that humanity as a whole are a herd of asses.

    Breakthrough:
    Some of us laugh
    Some of us cry
    Some of us smoke
    Some of us lie
    But it's all just the way
    that we cope with our lives...

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    Breakthrough: Another glorious experience when you finally realize that what you thought you knew in the past was pile of bull.

    Glorious:

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    Glorious: Fancy

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    Some of us lie
    But it's all just the way
    that we cope with our lives...

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    Depleted: 1) Full conversion & harmony with Flatland 2) Diminished, as in the case for DU ordinance and armor: where the fissile isotope U-235 is 0.3% or less (normally ~ 0.7%).

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    Fissile: A missile which goes pfffffisssst and explodes a few feet away from the take-off point.

    Income tax:
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    Income tax: State-sponsored theft.

    Equality:
    "I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance. And when I saw my devil, I found him serious, thorough, profound, solemn: he was the spirit of gravity- through him all things fall. Not by wrath, but by laughter, do we slay. Come, let us slay the spirit of gravity!" - Nietzsche

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    Equality: A pipe dream often espoused by politicians which actually means that all men are equal as long as the man in question has a certain skin color, social status, net value, etc. We the poor and the middle class are equal to each other, and should listen to our betters. The feudal system is alive and well.

    Middle Ages:
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    Middle Ages: Those years when a sports car looks like a valuable investment.

    Investment:

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    Investment: Betting both ends against the middle that the money you give to develop an idea, an invention, or to start up a business will pay off. It usually doesn't, but then there's things like Facebook and Twitter that have made their investors obscenely rich

    Foul:
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    that we cope with our lives...

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    Foul: 1) opposite of fair 2) infraction 3) odious 4) homophone/heterograph for "fowl" 5) perfect rhyme for "owl" (a fowl)

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    Owl: A form of night bird with eyes and ears facing forward and not on the sides of the head like a normal bird allowing it to have binocular vision and hearing like we have. It also prefers standing more upright than something more bent over and water loving like a seagull. It seems wise which makes you wonder if there might be something wrong with it.

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    Wise: Possessed of knowledge. This is not a another word for smart, as you may possess knowledge that is totally worthless, such as trivia about the TV shows of the past four decades. Try putting that on a résumé!

    Résumé:
    Some of us laugh
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    that we cope with our lives...

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    Resume': A type of clear soup made from richly flavored stock or bouillon that has been clarified, a process which uses egg whites to remove fat and sediment. Sorry, that's consomme. Resume: That thing wot you use to get a job.

    Pendragon, how do you do superscript characters like you did with resume? Also, I must disagree with you as to the definition of wisdom. I would say wisdom is not the possession of knowledge, but an insight into the essential nature of things, such as you will possess when reflecting back on an experience long afterwards.

    Squash--and go there, my friends. Go there.
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    Résumé: An odious written affair oft laced with lies predicated on the need for a good, honest, job.

    Oops, too late.

    Squash: 1) Puréed substance given by mothers to their babies; a taste not often revisited in youth but perhaps in adulthood 2) game which appears to be a combination of tennis and handball played inside a cube.

    Puréed:

    As for accents etc. you can use alt codes https://www.google.com/search?num=10....0.aduuRixZ9L8 if your keyboard allows them, or google and cut and paste in a pinch Example: https://www.google.com/search?num=10....0.UvCcTeIR92E . My keyboard doesn't allow alt codes (HP Pavilion dv6) but I can use a virtual keyboard for some. Example: ALT 3 (alt key depressed same time 3 depressed on a keyboard with dedicated number keypad or virtual keypad) = ♥. Special characters can also be generated by word processing proggies and cut and pasted, and within Windows http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/w...324c368?auth=1 and Mac utilities http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Symbols-on-a-Mac.
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